{"id":310588,"date":"2025-08-23T07:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/310588\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:10:17","slug":"espn-insider-gives-the-latest-on-status-of-jaguars-dual-threat-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/310588\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN insider gives the latest on status of Jaguars dual-threat star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver\/cornerback Travis Hunter<\/a> has been in and out of practice over the last week. ESPN\u2018s Dan Graziano said on Friday\u2019s \u201cGet Up\u201d that Hunter is dealing with an upper-body injury, adding that he won\u2019t play in Saturday\u2019s preseason finale against the Miami Dolphins. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been missing practice time with what the team describes as an upper-body injury,\u201d Graziano said. \u201cHe\u2019s not going to play in the Jaguars\u2019 preseason finale, with head coach Liam Coen<\/a> saying yesterday that it\u2019s just about getting him ready for the regular season and that if it was a game that counted, he would be able to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunter, the No. 2 overall selection in this year\u2019s NFL Draft<\/a>, suffered the injury during the team\u2019s scrimmage on Aug. 14. He did not practice the following day, nor did he suit up in Jacksonville\u2019s second preseason contest against the New Orleans Saints. Hunter returned to participate in individual drills Tuesday and Wednesday this week, though he was held out of Thursday\u2019s joint practice with the Dolphins. <\/p>\n

Coen said that holding Hunter out of practice is a long-term move. They don\u2019t want to risk the chance of him aggravating the injury and being unavailable for Week 1 against the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was more just do we want him now or potentially not [playing against] Carolina [in Week 1],\u201d Coen said, via Michael DiRocco of ESPN<\/a>. \u201cIt was more just being smart about the next few weeks because the ultimate goal is Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u201cCould he have probably gone? I think so. If this was Carolina, would he have probably played? Yeah, so we\u2019re moving in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Travis Hunter already playing both ways for Jaguars<\/p>\n

Hunter played in Jacksonville\u2019s preseason opener two weeks ago against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played 19 snaps, including 10 on offense. He totaled two catches for nine yards on the opening drive but didn\u2019t record a defensive stat. Hunter was not targeted on defense.<\/p>\n

Coen said he thought Hunter played well on offense. While he noticed a missed tackle on defense, it was still a good debut for the former\u00a0Colorado<\/a>\u00a0star.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he made a couple good catches on some option routes,\u201d Coen said after the game. \u201cHe missed the one tackle defensively that I noticed, like that was the only thing that I kind of noticed. In terms of his overall play, I\u2019ll have to watch the tape on how he operated defensively a little bit more, but I thought offensively, he made the right decisions on those option routes. He made a good catch and almost broke out of that one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver\/cornerback Travis Hunter has been in and out of practice over the last week. ESPN\u2018s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[7,212,125,2401,213,6,12987],"class_list":{"0":"post-310588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","11":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","12":"tag-jaguars","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-travis-hunter-22-collins-hill"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115076833260945311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}